récurrence
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,707
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
récurrence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Retour à un état antérieur, à une position passée. Pronounced \ʁe.ky.ʁɑ̃s\. Often confused with récurrent and récurrents.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récurrence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ky.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for récurrence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ky.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,707 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for récurrence, with forms such as "rcéurrence", "recurrence", and "rrécurrence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "récurrent", "récurrents", "récurrente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is récurrence, spelled R-É-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Retour à un état antérieur, à une position passée.
- 2État, propriété de ce qui est récurrent, qui revient.
- 3Retour d’une espèce ou d’un organe à un type antérieur.
- 4Raisonnement par récurrence.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rcéurrence,recurrence,rrécurrence,réccurrence,récrurence,récurence,récurernce,récurrecne,récurrencce,récurrenec,récurrennce,récurrnece,réucrrence,ércurrence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for récurrence
Misspelling Variants of "récurrence"
Frequency rank: #35,707 in French
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